Plantation Blackstrap Molasses, Unsulfured, 31 ounce
Why Use Molasses?
It is well established that synthetically derived or composed mineral supplements are not as beneficial as whole food sources naturally nutrient dense. Iron supplements, for example, tend to create constipation and other digestive problems. Minerals are not only removed by processing foods, they tend to be lacking in depleted topsoils used for raising crops.
Many health sources claim that enzymes and minerals are even more important than vitamins for our health. Magnesium is essential to the metabolism and synthesis of almost all the other minerals and vitamins.
What’s It Got?
Thing for the sugar wary (and weary) to consider is blackstrap molasses has a low glycemic index. The result is less lipids or fats occurring in the blood.
Many use blackstrap molasses to holistically overcome anemia because of its high iron content. Iron is essential to creating red blood cells. In addition to iron, blackstrap molasses contains folate, a natural source for folic acid, along with some other B vitamins, which all combine to form the synergistic mix that promotes red blood cell production.
Both are densely packaged within this natural food source. It is also helpful in maintaining heart health. Insufficient magnesium levels can result in muscle spasms, including the heart muscle, which of course relates to arrhythmia or even heart attacks.
Potassium is another mineral abundant in blackstrap molasses. Even the American Heart Association has included unsulphured blackstrap molasses as a food supportive of good heart health.
Manganese, a trace mineral, is very high in content with unsulphured blackstrap molasses. Manganese ions function with a number of enzymes, and are essential to combating unusual free radicals. Like magnesium, manganese also supports cellular absorption of nutrients, and is also beneficial to the nervous system.
There certainly are a lot of nervous system supporting nutrients in this sweetener! Seems that it would be a useful alternative and deterrent to the hyperactivity and ADD in youngsters who consume too much sugar. And unsulphured blackstrap molasses has been used successfully for just that!
This trace mineral also helps stabilize and synthesize fatty acids blood sugar levels. It’s true that too much manganese can be toxic. But it takes consistent breathing of manganese dust from industrial sources for that to happen.
Other minerals that appear in abundance are copper and zinc. Because it helps support a healthy prostate, zinc has been tagged as the male mineral. Working with zinc, copper helps eliminate the oxidation damage of superoxides.
All the minerals and nutrients of unsulphured blackstrap molasses are in their natural, balanced form to create a bio-accessible, nutritional synergy unavailable from supplements that are not food. Regardless of the amounts of nutrients listed in synthesized supplements, there is more bang for the buck with super or whole food sources.
Many health sources claim that enzymes and minerals are even more important than vitamins for our health. Because of its high iron content, many use blackstrap molasses to holistically overcome anemia. Potassium is another mineral abundant in blackstrap molasses. Even the American Heart Association has included unsulphured blackstrap molasses as a food supportive of good heart health.
Manganese, a trace mineral, is very high in content with unsulphured blackstrap molasses.